From:
Friedrich Rolle
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Jan 1866
Source of text:
DAR 176: 202
Summary:
Last fascicles of FR’s book Der Mensch [1866] being sent.
Finds roots of human race in Negroes of Africa, Bushmen of South Africa and New Guinea, and short-headed peoples of south Asia.
Has translated natural selection as natürliche Auslese.
Ludwig Rütimeyer active in developing the descent of mammals.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project